The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 11-12 |
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... hear men of this sort , speaking of themselves , add to their own merit , as they think , by impairing it , in praising themselves for their defects , freely allowing they commit some few frivolous errors , in order to be esteemed ...
... hear men of this sort , speaking of themselves , add to their own merit , as they think , by impairing it , in praising themselves for their defects , freely allowing they commit some few frivolous errors , in order to be esteemed ...
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... hear the lady propose her doubts ; and to see the pains she is at to get over them . I must not here omit a practice that is in use among the vainer part of our own sex , who will often ask a friend's advice in relation to a fortune ...
... hear the lady propose her doubts ; and to see the pains she is at to get over them . I must not here omit a practice that is in use among the vainer part of our own sex , who will often ask a friend's advice in relation to a fortune ...
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... hear a thousand coffee - house debates every day , am very sensible of this want of method in the thoughts of my honest countrymen . There is not one dispute in ten which is managed in those schools of polítics , where , after the three ...
... hear a thousand coffee - house debates every day , am very sensible of this want of method in the thoughts of my honest countrymen . There is not one dispute in ten which is managed in those schools of polítics , where , after the three ...
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... hear the cries of children with pity instead of anger ; and when they run over his head , he is not disturbed at the noise , but is glad of their mirth and health . Tom Trusty has told me , that he thinks it doubles his attention to the ...
... hear the cries of children with pity instead of anger ; and when they run over his head , he is not disturbed at the noise , but is glad of their mirth and health . Tom Trusty has told me , that he thinks it doubles his attention to the ...
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... hear so often repeated the word prerogative . That part of your law which is reserved in yourself , for the readier service and good of the public , slight men are eternally buzzing in our ears to cover their own follies and miscar ...
... hear so often repeated the word prerogative . That part of your law which is reserved in yourself , for the readier service and good of the public , slight men are eternally buzzing in our ears to cover their own follies and miscar ...
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Page 234 - It must be so ; Plato, thou reasonest well; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 20 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Page 14 - I HAVE SET THE LoRD ALWAYS BEFORE ME : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 8 - ... my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o'...
Page 94 - These see the works of the Lord, And his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, Which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Page 313 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 14 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 207 - KNOWING that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county...
Page 82 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 114 - God's existence, by telling us that he comprehends infinite duration in every moment : that eternity is with him...